Editing 1984 Winter Olympics (section)

==Host city selection==
=== Selection of the host city ===
{{main|Bids for the 1984 Winter Olympics}}
[[File:Sarajevo Tram Pofalici 1982-09-22.jpg|thumb|Sarajevo in 1982]]
A study entitled "The possibilities and problems of tourism development continental in Yugoslavia" and published in 1968 by the [[Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] (OECD) first indicated that Yugoslavia and in particular the region of Sarajevo have favorable conditions for the development of winter sports. As early as 1970, the authorities in Sarajevo planned to host the Winter Olympics to promote this development and become a sustainable winter sports center. They first considered a candidature for the Games of 1976 or 1980 but, after having modernized the city within the framework of the project "Protection of the environment and of man", applied for those of 1984. The bid committee was created on 23 November 1977.<ref>{{harvsp | Dunkelberger | 2004|p=381}}</ref><ref>{{harvsp|Organizing committee|1984|p=4}}</ref>

Two other candidates for the Games were [[Gothenburg]] in Sweden and [[Sapporo]] in Japan. The Gothenburg project was considered expensive and if it were the winner, the logistics expenses would be gigantic, because the competition places would be decentralized. Sapporo had previously hosted the Games in 1972, only twelve years before the proposed 1984 Games and Japan presented Nagoya to bid to the [[1988 Summer Olympics]]. The city therefore had experience and most of the infrastructure present and was in use since then, but new options were seen as more attractive. Sarajevo presented a compact project, with all the planned venues within 25 kilometers of the city, and has experience of several international competitions such as Alpine Skiing World Cup events, and the European Figure Skating Championishipis.<ref name = "Dunkelberger p. 382">{{harvsp | Dunkelberger | 2004|p=382}}</ref>

{|class="wikitable"
|+ 1984 Winter Olympics bidding results<ref name=votes>{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesbids.com/english/archives/past.shtml |title=Past Olympic host city election results |publisher=[[GamesBids]] |access-date=17 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110124022022/http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/past.html |archive-date=24 January 2011 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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! rowspan=2 | City
! rowspan=2 | Country
! colspan=2 style="background:silver;"| Round
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! style="background:silver;"| 1
! style="background:silver;"| 2
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| [[Sarajevo]] || {{flag|Yugoslavia}} || style="text-align:center;"|31 || style="text-align:center;"|'''39'''
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| [[Sapporo]] || {{flag|Japan|1947}} || style="text-align:center;"|'''33''' || style="text-align:center;"|36
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| [[Gothenburg]] || {{flag|Sweden}} || style="text-align:center;"|10 || style="text-align:center;"|—
|}

The host city for the XIV Olympic Winter Games was announced on 18 May 1978, during the 80th session of the [[International Olympic Committee]] (IOC) in [[Athens]], Greece. [[Sarajevo]] was selected by a margin of three votes over [[Sapporo]], Japan. [[Gothenburg]] became the first Swedish city to lose a Winter Olympics bid; other Swedish cities, such as [[Falun]] and [[Östersund]], would later lose consecutive bids to the [[1988 Winter Olympics|Calgary (1988)]], [[1992 Winter Olympics|Albertville (1992)]], [[1994 Winter Olympics|Lillehammer (1994)]], [[1998 Winter Olympics|Nagano (1998)]], and [[2002 Winter Olympics|Salt Lake City (2002)]], respectively. Sarajevo, the capital of present-day [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], was the third-largest city of [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]] at the time.

===Politics===
The 1984 Winter Games took place during the [[Cold War]], four years after the [[1980 Summer Olympics boycott|boycott]] of the [[1980 Summer Olympics|Moscow Games]] by 66 National Olympic Committees including the United States and a few months before the [[1984 Summer Olympics boycott|boycott]] of the [[1984 Summer Olympics|Los Angeles 1984 Games]] by the Soviet Union and another 17 National Olympics Committees. International tensions did not affect the Winter Games.<ref name = "Mogore 
 p.163">{{harvsp | Mogore | 1989|p=163}}</ref><ref name = "Monnin p. 109">{{harvsp | Monnin | 2010|p=109}}</ref>